Viral Churches: Helping Church Planters Become Movement Makers

ISBN-13: 9780470550458 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 256 str.

Ed Stetzer

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A groundbreaking guide for multiplying the impact of church plants Based on a study that was commissioned by the Leadership Network, this book reveals the best practices in church planting and uncovers the common threads among them. A much-needed resource, this book will inform, guide, and even catalyze today's many church planting leaders. The authors clearly show leaders how to plant churches that create a multiplication movement and offer inspiration for them to do so. The book addresses their questions about what to do next in their church planting strategies, in light of research on what's actually working best.

• Author Ed Stetzer heads up LifeWay Research
• Provides reliable, credible information about what church planting strategies work best
• A volume in the Leadership Network Series

Offers a definitive guide for church planting and the burgeoning movement it is part of.

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About Leadership Network ix

Foreword by Rick Warren xi

1 Introduction 1

2 Church Planting: The New Evangelism 11

3 Growth by Multiplication: Big Contrast to Addition 31

4 New Players: Aggressive Local Churches and Church Planting Networks 49

5 Kingdom Cooperation: Church Planters Learning Together 67

6 Predictors of Success: Recruitment, Assessment, and Deployment 83

7 Thriving: New Church Survival Rates 101

8 House Churches: Separating Reality from Fiction 115

9 Multisite Strategy: A Fast–Growing Trend That Affects Planting 129

10 Rapid Growth: Still Not Reproduction 139

11 Funding: Partnerships Matter 149

12 The New Scorecard: Measuring a Church Multiplication Movement 161

13 Obstacles to Missional Replication: What Holds Us Back 185

14 Conclusion: Solving the Toughest Challenges 195

Acknowledgments 209

Appendix: List of Churches and Networks Cited 211

Notes 215

Annotated Bibliography for Church Multiplication 225

The Authors 233

Index 237

Scripture Index 244

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Ed Stetzer, Ph.D., is president of LifeWay Research, visiting professor of research and missiology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, visiting research professor at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, a contributing editor for Christianity Today, and a columnist for Outreach Magazine and Catalyst Monthly. He has been a church planter and has trained pastors and church planters on five continents. His books include Planting Missional Churches.

Warren Bird, Ph.D., directs the research division at Leadership Network, teaches atAlliance Theological Seminary, and regularly contributes to several magazines. An ordained minister, he has been involved in five church plants. Bird has coauthored twenty–one books including Starting a New Church.

Visit the Leadership Network Website, www.leadnet.org, for more innovative resources and information.

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Praise for Viral Churches

"This book by . . . my dear friends and partners in ministry . . . is pure gold. . . .There is simply no better way to reach, teach, train, and send out disciples than through churches that are planted with the intentionality of planting others."

Rick WarrenSaddleback Church

"This book is for those who want to go from making adent to making a difference."

Mark Driscoll Mars Hill Church (www.marshillchurch.org), Acts 29 Network, The Resurgence

"There is no doubt that the idea of exponentially reproducing church isthe next step, providing us with perhaps the only viable way forward toovercome the current impasse of Christianity in the West. In Viral Churches,Ed and Warren team up to produce a characteristically well researched,missiologically hefty, and definitive book for our times."

Alan Hirschauthor, The Forgotten Ways, and coauthor, Untamed

"Ed Stetzer′s experience in planting churches and training pastors makeshim one of today′s most experienced and trusted voices. He has an ability to take research and make it applicable to this generation′s Christian leaders.I applaud his efforts to build spiritual movements everywhere."

Steve Douglasspresident, Campus Crusade for Christ International